Review Of Discourse Analysis (An Introduction)

Well guys, before we go too far in discussing about the discourse, it is necessary to start our discussion with the discussion, isn't it? so this is it....

A. What is discourse analysis?
Discourse Analysis is an approach we use in analyzing the language context either in a written or spoken text. Discourse anaysis and pragmatics has a close relation, even some people are difficult to separate these two distintive terms. if you study about pragmatics, you analyse how the context can give contribution to the message meant. To anayse that, you the discourse analysis as your approach to examine the pragmatic problems.
 

B. Field Studies in Discourse Analysis
 

As the topics of Discourse Analysis Study, you can choose one of several issues below:
a. The variety of discourse levels of dimensions, such as intonations, gestures, lexicon, meanings, etc.
b. The genre of discourse. it refers to the types of discourse in media, politics, science and business.
c. The relations between discourse and the emergence of syntactic structure
d. The relations between text (discourse) and context
e. The relations between discourse and power
f.  The relations between discourse and interaction